Professor Yermack, of the Stern School of Business at New York University, argues that Bitcoin should not be considered money, for a number of reasons.
These include Bitcoin’s inability to act as a medium of exchange or a store of value or act as a unit of account.

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The prospects of a Bitcoin ETF coming to market have not only crypto enthusiasts psyched, but Wall Street as well. Even though the term ETF — i.e., exchange-traded fund — is often talked about, we wanted to delve into the mechanics behind it in order to get a better understanding of the potential impact it might have. We interviewed an ETF consultant, an ETF applicant, a professor of finance and even a commissioner at the Securities and Exchange Commission to get the whole picture and to try to answer the question, could a Bitcoin ETF be a game changer?
Richard Keary — ETF Consultant and founder of Global ETF Advisors LLC
Gabor Gurbacs — Digital Asset Strategist/Director at VanEck
David Yermack — Professor and Chair of the Finance Department at NYU Stern School of Business
Hester Peirce — SEC Commissioner
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Sweden’s central bank expects to have all paper money eliminated—and a new “digital currency” in place—within TWO years...
But it’s not just Sweden. The U.K., Russia, China, and even the U.S. are all looking to launch their own forms of digital fiat money. It’s a new dawn of total control…
In today’s must see 3-Minute Market Minder, The Palm Beach Letter’s Teeka Tiwari warns that central bankers are turning to digital money so they can track—and tax—every transaction you make.
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Though central banks do not seem concerned about being driven obsolete by cryptocurrencies, some are considering issuing digital currencies with similar technology. Stephen Cecchetti discusses three policy implications this might have, namely for restricting illegal use of cash, allowing for negative interest rates, and improving financial access. All three are possible, but come with risk.

This market trading analysis applies to various exchanges, including Bitmex and Binance. Tackling questions like if Bitcoin can reach 20k again and if we will be seeing a crypto currency market recovery this year. Things like the lightning network have provided huge improvements for BTC and while it is true that others like Roger Ver with Bitcoin Cash (bcash) may disagree, I do see these blockchain technology innovations to be very bullish fundamental signs for the space.
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Every time we ask the audience of our events – Are you planning to do an ICO? – we have at least 10 people raising hands. What are these projects about? What has happened with them? Are they moving forward? Have decided that the ICO road is not for them?
In order to address these questions and to find out what ICOs are coming out of Bulgaria, we decided to have potential Bulgarian ICOs to pitch their ideas during the next (this) Sofia Crypto Meetup event. The presentations will receive feedback from the community.
We believe this will be a great opportunity for local teams to promote their ICOs locally and get essential information that will be instrumental in their global marketing efforts.
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IMF And BIS Call To Regulate Crypto Currency
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Money School has been divided over cryptocurrencies for a while: Fran likes them and trades them, Lacey ignores them. Until now.
Following a lecture by Professor David Yermack, Lacey shares what she's learned about Bitcoin, blockchains and the future of banking.

Joseph Huber, the academic head behind the "Sovereign Money" or "Vollgeld"-System explains how a CBDC should be structured and designed. Learn how CBDC could lead to a sovereign money or Vollgeld-System in this video and on the website: http://conference2018.monetative.de/
Speech: "Design principles for a Central Bank Digital Currency" at the Conference "The Future of Money - 10 Years after Lehman and Nakamoto" by Prof. Dr. Joseph Huber.
Prof. Dr. Joseph Huber held the chair of economic and environmental sociology from 1992 to 2012. From 1981 to 1992 he was a professor adjoint at Free University Berlin and held fellowships and guest and interim professorships at Science Center Berlin, University Zürich and Technical University Vienna. From the 1980s he was conducting studies and serving as a policy advisor to various governments, politicians and companies on matters of economic and ecological modernization. From 1999 to 2001 he worked with James Robertson on monetary reform. The report Creating New Money has offered a frame of reference for quite a number of monetary reform initiatives. In 2009 founder of Monetative e.V., a monetary reform group advocating Vollgeld (sovereign money).
The conference was jointly organized by the German NGO Monetative e.V. and the Frankfurt School Blockchain Center. It was supported by the International Movement for Monetary Reform
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Monetative is a not-for-profit NGO. It was founded in 2012 as a think tank and campaigning organization. It has more than 160 members, many of whom work or carry out research in the field of monetary systems. The aim of Monetative is to inform society, academics and politicians how the current money system works and why the power of commercial banks to create money systematically produces financial crises. As an alternative money system, Monetative campaigns for a „Vollgeld“- or „Sovereign Money“-System.
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Frankfurt School Blockchin Center
The Frankfurt School Blockchain Center is a think tank and research center which investigates the implications of blockchain technology for companies and their business models. Apart from the development of prototypes, it serves as a platform for managers, startups and technology and industry experts to share knowledge and best practices. The Blockchain Center also provides new research impulses and develops training for students and executives. It focuses on banking, mobility, “Industry 4.0” and the energy sector.
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International Movement for Monetary Reform (IMMR)
The IMMR is an international coalition of nonprofit organisations from across the world, campaigning for a monetary system that serves society. We maintain a very clear and specific aim, namely to change the way money is created and allocated, but we are not dogmatic about the way our proposal is implemented as the details will vary from country to country. To serve this goal, the IMMR supports and connects various national member organisations to share ideas, discuss research and exchange best practices.
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Where is the blockchain taking us and how will cryptocurrencies play into the future of world economies? Learn about this and more through industry experts and VCs.
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BITCOIN Digital Wallet BLOCKCHAIN Hits 1 MILLION USERS & BITCOIN Price Goes Over $1,000
The price of Bitcoin returned to more than $1,000 on the Mt.Gox exchange after Zynga Inc. said Jan. 4 it would start accepting the virtual currency for some of its online social games. Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg
As director of trading at an exchange for Bitcoin, Silverman, 25, joined a bevy of Wall Street brokers, analysts hedge funds and other speculators taking a gamble on the new currency. They are drawn to Bitcoin's soaring value -- up about 50-fold the past year -- as well as the novelty of pioneering a new realm of finance.
"I think Bitcoin will be the first and oldest crypto-currency but not the last," Silverman said in an interview. "It'll be a premier safe-haven asset."
Video: Can Wall Street Interest Lend Credence to Bitcoin?
For now Bitcoin, a volatile and ill-understood invention, is anything but safe. A regulatory crackdown on Wall Street risk-taking and reductions in jobs and pay across the industry since the 2008 credit crisis have heightened the virtual currency's appeal to bankers looking to profit elsewhere.
Some Bitcoin enthusiasts are buying and holding the currency, betting that it will hit new heights. Others are starting businesses for trading, exchanging or storing Bitcoin. Still others are pooling venture capital from Silicon Valley and elsewhere with an eye to investing in Bitcoin-related businesses. For the most part, they are individuals, not large firms.
"They are front-running the rest of Wall Street," said Barry Silbert, the founder and head of SecondMarket Inc., a New York brokerage that runs a virtual currency fund. "They are excited about Bitcoin."
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The price of Bitcoin returned to more than $1,000 on the Mt.Gox exchange after Zynga Inc. said Jan. 4 it would start accepting the virtual currency for some of its online social games. One Bitcoin was worth about $950 yesterday, according to the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index. That is off a high of $1,127.45 in early December, but far above its Jan. 1, 2013 price of $13.30.
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"Bitcoin does not behave like a currency at all," Yermack wrote. "Instead it resembles a speculative investment similar to the Internet stocks of the late 1990s."
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The regulatory crackdown hasn't quashed interest in Bitcoin on Wall Street, said Jonathan Mohan, who founded BitcoinNYC, a networking group.
David Woo, head of global rates and currencies at Bank of America Corp.'s (BAC:US) Merrill Lynch, said he thinks there is a "social dimension" to the interest in Bitcoin, because many people are suspicious of banks and the Federal Reserve's easy money since the 2008 financial crisis.
Nicholas Cary, CEO at Blockchain.info, discusses the rise of bitcoin and his company's growth as an online wallet for the digital currency
Hong Kong to welcome planet's second EVER Bitcoin ATM
Hong Kong is set to make in the crypto-currency industry after it was revealed as the location for the world's second Bitcoin ATM.
Robocoin Technologies CEO Jordan Kelley told the South China Morning Post the company is looking at several potential sites in the Chinese SAR.
"I think Hong Kong is a very progressive environment," he added. "The government takes a progressive approach to emerging technologies, and it is important to get something going in the Asian economies."
The crypto-cash point will be Asia's first and follows on from Robocoin's first Bitcoin ATM, launched in Vancouver in October 2013, which apparently took over C$1 million (£576,000) in its first month. Bitcoin crosses $1,000 on Zynga moveHigh quality global journalism requires investment. said Bobby Lee, co-founder of BTC China, one of the country's top exchanges.

Accenture, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), and The Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) have successfully developed three prototypes based on blockchain technology that could significantly improve the kinds of payment systems that currently enable banks around the world to transfer trillions of dollars per day to each other and help them manage their financial liquidity.

The TREZOR (by SatoshiLabs) is a first-of-its-kind hardware wallet that allows Bitcoin users to safely and conveniently store and spend their bitcoins, without having to worry about malware, keyloggers, or third parties. This video is a walkthrough to show how easy it is to set up the TREZOR and use it. Feel free to ask questions in the comments.
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Prosperity of Bitcoin in Uganda
Every year Ugandan migrants around the world send $700 Million USD back home to their families, but the main problem have always been the banks and money transfer services like Western Union and MoneyGram that charge sometimes up to 20% commission for their services, that’s a big drawback for the people in Uganda. However, Bitcoin is emerging as an alternative which offers much lower fees and faster payments.
In this short documentary, featuring a 20 years old Ugandan named Ronald Orlac Cristo who receives Bitcoin from his family in the US to support his education. this is the production of Bitcoinfilm.org, directed by Sergio Ruestes, Happy watching.
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In Episode 34 of Hidden Forces, host Demetri Kofinas speaks with Brian Kelly. Brian is CEO and Founder of BKCM LLC, a digital asset investment firm. He is an experienced Global Macro investor and the portfolio manager of the BKCM Digital Asset Fund – a hedge fund focused on digital currencies and assets. Brian Kelly has over twenty-five years’ experience in financial markets and is the author of the book “The Bitcoin Big Bang – How Alternative Currencies are About to Change the World.” He is a CNBC contributor and can be seen regularly on Fast Money.
Our most recent episodes with Chris Burniske on modeling cryptoassets and with Ari Paul on cryptocurrency trading methodologies introduced two foundational frameworks to our audience. This week’s episode with Brian Kelly affords our audience the opportunity to explore both of these perspectives (theory and execution) in a single conversation. Brian Kelly is uniquely qualified to talk about the financial side of cryptocurrencies, but he also provides valuable perspective on how the media is covering this space.
Brian begins his conversation with Demetri by recounting his introductory experience to bitcoin, how he made his first investments, and what he learned in the year he wrote his book “The Bitcoin Big Bang.” The two explore familiar topics like the problem of scalability, exchange and regulatory risk, cash-settled futures and ETF’s, and how bitcoin may fare compared to gold during a systemic financial crisis. Is there any way to measure the intrinsic value of a given cryptocurrency? Can permissioned blockchains compete with public ledgers, or will cryptocurrencies come to dominate the future of software? Besides bitcoin and Ethereum, what are some of the more interesting cryptocurrency investment opportunities out there? Brian and Demetri also cover the recent spike in financial volatility amid this rising interest rate environment. Lastly, they consider how the rise of systemic trading strategies and passive investment vehicles like ETFs may accelerate (or not) a future market downturn.
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The role of blockchain tech in finance is not just a future consideration. In financial markets around the globe, there are real projects underway where crypto tokens and distributed ledger technology are redefining in tangible ways how startups raise capital, investors take equity ownership and capital markets function. Our panel of international experts help make sense of it all, from ICOs to security tokens and decentralized exchanges, and take an informed look at the future of finance as enabled by emerging tech.
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This was first presented at the November 2017 FintechTO - Blockchain Edition.
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On February 5, the Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy hosted Regulating Cryptocurrencies: The Future of Bitcoin, Ether, and Other Tokens. The discussion brought together Columbia's own fintech expert R.A. Farrokhnia; Commissioner Brian Quintenz of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC); as well as Gary DeWaal and Lee Schneider, leading legal experts on blockchain at ‎Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP and McDermott Will & Emery, respectively.
In this video, 2 of 3, Brian Quintenz, Lee Schneider, and Gary DeWaal discuss pressing issues facing users, regulators, and gatekeepers of cryptocurrencies.
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Recorded on 26 May 2017 at the LSE Law and Financial Markets Project Conference, 'Blockchain financial assets and beyond: legal and regulatory perspectives'
Speaker: Philipp Paech (LSE Law)
Blockchain (or distributed ledger) technology and smart contracts may soon be used to hold and transfer financial assets, such as currency, securities and derivatives. A consistent analysis of the new technology’s impact on the law and regulation underlying financial markets and on wider legal issues has yet to be undertaken. Academia, regulators, lawmakers and the financial industry have to unite in this exercise and develop the axioms of a legal and regulatory framework that follows a universal conception, as the potential and the limits of the new technology are of universal concern. This conference is conceived to kick-start global discussion.